LONDON, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- The Council of Europe has signed a declaration attacking England's plan to permit the creation of babies with DNA from three biological parents.
ATLANTA, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- An Atlanta woman, Susan Bennett, said she is the voice behind Apple iPhone's voice-activated virtual assistant Siri, although Apple will not confirm that.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A mountain lion seems to have carved out a comfortable life for itself in the hills of Los Angeles, wildlife researchers said.
BOSTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A Boston robotics firm has publicly unveiled its newest creation, a four-legged free-running robot dubbed WildCat that can hit speeds of 16 mph.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Seemingly generic phone information gathered by the U.S. National Security Agency can reveal more personal information than commonly believed, an expert says.
MOSCOW, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A mission with dozens of animals launched into space in a Russian satellite yielded clues to why astronauts' eyesight deteriorates in space, scientists say.
MUSCAT, Oman, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- An owl discovered in a remote, mountainous region of Oman could be a newly recognized species based on its distinctive, unfamiliar hoot, ornithologists say.
GREENBELT, Md., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- NASA says it next mission to Mars has been cleared for takeoff amid fears the U.S. government shutdown could cause it to miss its launch window.
SOUTHAMPTON, England, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A chemical in the exhaust fumes of diesel vehicles could hamper the ability of honeybees to find flowers and collect pollen, British researchers report.
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The nearby star system Fomalhaut, with its exoplanet and dusty debris disk, is not just a double star, it's an unusual triple star, a U.S astronomer reports.
PARIS, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A proposed Mars rover will undergo its most ambitious test to date in remotely guided explorations of a Mars-like desert in South America, scientists said.
HANOVER, N.H., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A warming ocean caused by climate change could make fish accumulate more mercury, increasing the health risk to people who eat seafood, U.S. researchers say.
NEW YORK, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Shares of Tweeter Home Entertainment Group soared Friday, riding on the coattails of U.S. Internet giant Twitter's initial stock launch announcement.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The brilliance of Albert Einstein's brain may have been down to unusually well-connected left and right hemispheres, U.S. and Chinese researchers say.
By KRISTEN BUTLER, UPI.com | Blog
Self-assembling cube robots developed at MIT jump, flip and swarm with no external parts.
